Etiqueta: Civil War
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Filomeno, despite myself (Filomeno, a mi pesar)
Filomeno Freijomil or Ademar de Alemcastre, two names for a same character in search of his destiny, and that uses his names depending on the place or the situation he is. The character’s duality determines his future, which is struggled between his wishes and his inherited destiny. Filomeno leaves him home to study Laws in…
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On the rock (En la roca)
This story places us at the midpoint of the Spanish Civil War and narrates the lives of Guy Burguess and Kim Philby, two spies with a single mission: assassinating Francisco Franco. The first one is a BBC announcer and the second one is a correspondent for the newspaper The Times, during the Spanish Civil War.…
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The Blue Overall (El Mono Azul)
During the Spanish Civil War, four militia women are isolated, all alone and lost when going behind the fascist lines. They know they are close so they stay hidden in a bell tower of a demolished church. There, they are looking for the way back to Madrid, but soon they start fighting with each other.…
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Slaughterhouse 36/39 (Matadero 36/39)
Slaughterhouse 36/39 tells of the terrible situations that millions of citizens, especially women, were subjected to during the Spanish Civil War. This work is composed of three independent scenes: "Resistance 36", which tells the story of four prisoners locked up in a detention center; "Purging 38", which is developed in an asylum where they conduct…
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The Brigade (La Brigada) – Original Project
During the Spanish Civil War – from 1936 to 1939 – there were volunteer soldiers from different countries. Among all these volunteers, there was one brigade formed by the Americans that cannot be forgotten: The Lincoln Brigade. The Brigade tells the story of these heroes that gave their lives fighting for freedom. This series of thirteen episodes…
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Mission to the deserted village (Misión al pueblo desierto)
During the Spanish Civil War, the visions of diverse characters, inside the Republican side, interweave. In the main storyline, Damian and his companion Plácido (who is a painter), have the mission of protecting The Greco’s paintings, so that they are not either bombed or taken by the Nationals. The two main characters illustrate ideological differences…
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Lost city (La ciudad perdida)
Joaquim, an exile from the Civil War, wins a literary contest from his home town with a novel titled The Lost City. The town decides to bring him back as a citizen. Rafael, who also participated in the contest in which he ended up as a finalist, is a literature professor as well as a…
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Having to leave you (La partida)
The play dramatizes two epic moments in the history of the city of Alicante: one during the 19th century (after the victory of Ferdinand VII’s absolutism in 1823); and the other, during the last moths of the Spanish Civil War. Lluís, a republican intellectual, is the author of a romantic drama that shows how his…
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Sea horses (Caballos de Mar)
The memories of more than thirty years come through Ignasi Delamo’s mind, Colonel of the Republican Army’s Medical Department, before drawing his last breath after being wounded. They are different fragments of his life around the “Sea Horses” house since he met in 1907 the aristocrat Violaine, who he loved in a platonic way as well as her daughter…
